Entertainment

The Othering of Cate Blanchett’s ‘Carol’

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Whenever the media covers a film centering on a lesbian romance, they revert to giggling, nudging children—as we’ve seen with this week’s brilliant release, Carol.

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This week the spotlight is on Todd Haynes’s Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as two women who fall in love in 1950s New York.

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